John Pyper-Ferguson Quotes
Something great about 'The Last Ship' is that it employs a lot of actors, and a lot of actors are getting work because of it, and all these people are in here, and all these artists are working together.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
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Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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The major problem with the notion of transformation is that it forever hangs on to some form of self and never lets it go. It perpetuates the notion that self gets better and better, more and more divine, when in truth, the divine increases in proportion as the self decreases or falls away. The notion of a divinized self only increases or inflates the self; for those who buy into this notion, the journey may well end in total disillusionment. Offhand
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People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
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Something great about 'The Last Ship' is that it employs a lot of actors, and a lot of actors are getting work because of it, and all these people are in here, and all these artists are working together.
